I have gone ahead and saved the final version of this image as Final trek…effect.psd. Let's go ahead and toss this film grain layer for a moment and by…toss I mean I'm just going to turn it off. I'll just keep it around. It's not…taking up that much space. And I'm going to show you an alternate way to create…a neutral layer and bear in mind, we were creating a neutral layer where film…grain is concerned because we are making a gray layer and then setting it to…Overlay and then using that as the beginning for our Noise effect.…

We could have done it more simply, I showed it to you the way I did because I…wanted you to see every step in a process and understand the rationale behind…everything I was doing but now I'll show you if you were going to be doing this…kind of thing on a regular basis or even a semi regular basis then there is a…shorter way to approach to that involves fewer steps.…Select the vaseline layer right there. It looks a lot like baseline. It's…baseline, that's what it is. And then press Ctrl+Shift+N or Command+Shift+N on…

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5/1/2009

Photoshop is one of the world's most powerful image editors, and it can be daunting to try to use skillfully. Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.